History Series / ThefreshPrinceOfBelair

** Will gets one in "Get a Job" via guest star Creator/ChrisRock, who plays both a comedian interested in appearing on Hilary's talk show and the comedian's hideous but ''very'' forward sister. The comic is considering not appearing on her show unless someone shows his sister around town, but Will finds his hands very full trying to keep her off, so he goes to lengths to try to get rid of her.

* BellyDancer: In "Who's the Boss?", Carlton enlists the help of Jazz when the performance of his management job on campus begins to suffer. Shortly after, Jazz brings a weird group of friends to help out, including a belly dancer with a snake.

'''Will:''' Um... "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air."\\
'''Executive:''' That's right. Bel-Air. ''Not'' Philadelphia. ''Bel-Air''.\\
'''Will:''' But... y'know... my moms...\\

* GaussianGirl: Frequently, usually involving Carlton.

An' I yelled to the cabbie, 'Yo, Holmes! Smell ya later!'\\

** In "The Ethnic Tip", Vivian begins to teach a Black History class at Bel-Air Academy after Will gives her the idea. While their white classmates are enthusiastic about the course and work hard to get good grades, Will and Carlton slack off due to them both being black and their [[{{Nepotism}} belief she will blindly pass them]]. She ends up being extra tough on Will and Carlton, leading to them doing poorly in the class and resulting in them openly complaining about her not mollycoddling. They even refuse to sign a petition that would have allowed her to become their permanent teacher, which upsets her. Afterwards, when they explain that they didn't like the amount of work they received, she counters that she was tough on them because she was hoping they would show an interest in their ancestry.
** The episode when the scout for Princeton comes to the school has Will impressing the man while Carlton gets rejected. Will is a mediocre student, [[BeYourself but his charm still won him over]] whereas Carlton is a top notch student, but still tried to emulate Will, inadvertently making a fool of himself and even ''threatened'' the man for not considering him.

** In "The Harder They Fall", Carlton tries to get Will in trouble with Phil by telling him about Will's plans to go with his girlfriend to Palm Springs after Will insults him. By this point, Will is living in the pool house paying rent and isn't living under Phil's rules anymore so Phil doesn't care what Will is doing with his free time, especially since Will is paying for the trip himself.
** "How I Spent My Summer Vacation" has Will coming back from Philly with a beeper, dreadlocks and an outfit that resembles a prison uniform. Aside from Phil and Vivian getting upset with him over it and his defiant attitude, once he kicked out, he tries to help an old lady with her bags, only for her to angrily rebuff him and a cop arrests him for thinking he was attempting to break into a car due to setting the alarm off by being too close to it and [[TemptingFate since he didn't believe that it actually would]].
** "Take My Cousin Please" has Hilary dating Will's professor, Scott Burton and going on a double date with Will and a girl he met at the college, Rhetta. In a classic case of PairTheSpares, the professor and Rhetta date at the end of the episode. The epilogue later reveals Scott Burton got fired from his job for dating a student.

-->-- '''The first verse of the show's ExpositoryThemeTune '''

The show is unique in how it presents a major clash between a stock inner-city teenager and his affluent black family. Unlike ''Series/TheCosbyShow'' or ''Series/FamilyMatters'', Will frequently calls out his relatives' upper-class lifestyle, and even suggests that Carlton is [[TheWhitestBlackGuy white beneath the skin]]; this is phased out through CharacterDevelopment when Will [[HypocriticalHeartwarming sees others discriminate]] [[StopBeingStereotypical against Carlton that way]].

In 2019, a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD3ISIM_kU8 parody trailer]] for a DarkerAndEdgier drama reboot unexpectedly caught Smith's attention, and [[ApprovalOfGod he was impressed enough]] to announce he would be producing an actual series based on the idea. The new series, titled ''Series/BelAir'', was picked up for 2 seasons by Creator/{{Peacock}} and stars newcomer Jabari Banks. The original series became available to stream for the first time in 2020 on Creator/HBOMax; the service also released a ''Fresh Prince'' reunion special later in the year.

But I thought "Nah, forget it. Yo holmes to Bel-Air...!''"

An' I yelled to the cabbie, "Yo, Holmes! Smell ya later!"\\

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: The second half of the last season has every episode starting with "I"; e.g., "I, Clownius," "I, Done," "I, Bowl Buster."

* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: In "It Had to be You", Will goes on a date with Jazz's sister who at first seems rather sweet. However, after one date, she completely changes, speaking to him in a rude, snide voice, she tells him where they will go to college, what jobs they will both have, how many kids they will have and what genders, what to eat and what not to eat (saying that if he orders steak now he'll have a heart attack at middle age and leave her with the kids), and when he looks at the waitress to place his order, she yells at both him ''and'' the waitress. Later, she chooses his wardrobe and buys him a beeper with the obvious intent of keeping track of him 24/7. When Will tells his aunt and uncle about this, they initially shrug it off. To get rid of her, Will sets things up so that she ends up with Carlton. In reality, Carlton tells her off angrily in a calm manner. When he does, she suddenly does a complete 180 and becomes demure and submissive and polite by the episode's end. She hangs on Carlton's every word, eagerly promises to write apology notes to everyone she has offended by hand and mail them and with one disapproving look from him, apologizes and quickly says she'll deliver them herself.

** "Mistaken Identity" ends with Carlton insisting that the police that pulled him and Will over were just doing their jobs, while Will seems to realize that it was because they were two black men driving a fancy car. Carlton asks Phil about it, which Phil says that he asked himself that same question the first time he got pulled over, leaving Carlton's "Police are all good" mentality violently shaken.

* HospitalVisitHesitation: In "Home is Where The Heart Attack Is", Carlton initially is terrified of seeing his father after his heart attack over being afraid of seeing him with tubes up his nose. He does soon see him, especially since he was asking for him.

* VirginShaming: Deconstructed. Carlton has no shame of being a virgin, but the repeated pressure from Will and his friends causes alongside meeting his ideal woman causes him to sleep with her the first chance he gets. While initially elated, he later finds out the woman was separated from her husband and has since reconciled with him. Carlton ends up devastated and even Will feels guilty after the fact for pushing him so hard.

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* OverprotectiveDad: Phil, in regards to Ashley and sometimes Hilary.

** "How I Spent My Summer Vacation" has one of Phil's business associates introduce himself to Will as "Whitey", on account of his white hair but Will refuses to call him that, for fear Whitey will "call me [[NWordPrivileges the other thing]]" in response.

-->'''[[Series/TheJeffersons George]]:''' Hey, Whitey!\\

* UnfortunateNames: Dr. Whitehorn, the marriage counselor in "Will Is From Mars...":
-->'''[[Series/TheJeffersons George]]:''' "Hey, Whitey!"\\
'''Dr. Whitehorn:''' "My name is Dr. Whitehorn."\\
'''George:''' "Whatever, Horny! Let's get to it!"

** * In "Mother's Day," Will is at a sperm bank to help Jazz and Jewel have a child. Jazz shows up with a card that reads "Heard you were having a stroke," which seems like a complete non sequitur until he justifies it by saying, "It was the closest one they had."

* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: Carlton ''thinks'' he's this to Will. In reality, it's actually the opposite.

** Will shouting [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFuKgleL63M&feature=related "MAMA NOOOOOOOOOO!"]] when he finds out that his mother and Lisa's father are sleeping together.

'''Will:''' Oh, Carlton, SHUT UP!.

* BeatWithoutABut: Will and Carlton compete for a new job position and the employer asks them for their qualifications. Carlton gives out his work experience and education while Will answers:
-->'''Will:''' Well, you know, I mean, I don't like to brag...
-->'''Employer:''' But?
-->'''Will:''' Oh That's it. I just don't like to brag.